Irish racing is buzzing again with the first round of the Champion Stakes and Corn Cuchulainn at Shelbourne Park. There were only six spots between the three CS winners with Ballymac Cooper narrowly edging it while the four 750 winners were only separated by 17 one/hundredths of a second with Aayamza Royal winning a thrilling qualifier.
The Laughil Duke/Coolavanny Pearl litter are only just two years old and two of them won second round heats of the Produce Stakes at Clonmel. Doolin Duke clocked 28.46 but brother Newinn Session was even quicker with a 28.15 run. By any standards, that is top top class.
Meanwhile at Dundalk, John McGee’s Swanley Bale was quickest in the first round of the Irish Sprint Cup.
| CLONMEL | 28.15 | NEWINN SESSION | (Laughil Duke-Coolavanny Pearl, Jul 18) |
| CURRAHEEN PARK | 29.46 | SCOOBY PRINCESS | (Ballymac Eske-Mountaylor Queen, Apr 18) |
| DRUMBO PARK | 17.75 | BANNSIDE BEN | (Droopys Roddick-Nabrina, Sep 18) |
| DUNDALK | 21.02 | SWANLEY BALE | (Laughil Blake-Killinan Baby, Jan 18) |
| ENNISCORTHY | 28.96 | NEAMSTOWN ROBIN | (Droopys Jet-Kereight Niamh, Jun 18) |
| GALWAY | 19.01 | HEATHLAWN O HARA | (Pat C Sabbath-Heathlawn Molly, Mar 18) |
| KILKENNY | 28.94 | BLACKSTONE BARRY | (Droopys Jet-Calzaghe Jan, Oct 18) |
| LIMERICK | 29.77 | DOOLIN PRINCESS | (Barcia Bale-Droopys Smasher, Jul 18) |
| MULLINGAR | 29.14 | LINGRAWN SALMON | (Superior Product-Lingrawn Suzy, Jan 18) |
| NEWBRIDGE | 17.62 | PENNYS FATE | (Deanridge Viking-Pennys Papaver, Jan 19) |
| SHELBOURNE PARK | 41.43 | AAYAMZA ROYALE | (Ballymac Eske-Ascot Lydia, Nov 17) |
| 29.50 | BALLYMAC COOPER | (Ballymac Matt-Ballymac Scala, Sep 17) | |
| THURLES PARK | 28.82 | BALLYHIMIKINBOLT | (Aero Majestic-Sparta Fantasy, Aug 17) |
| TRALEE | 28.39 | ALLAGHAUN RIVER | (Tullymurry Act-Knocksouna Lady, Nov 16) |
| WATERFORD | 28.50 | AVONGATE CUDI | (Superior Product-Droopys Amuse, Jun 18) |
| YOUGHAL | 29.13 | KNOCKBOY CAITLIN | (Tullymurry Act-Knockboy Kathy, Jun 17) |
